METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WORD COUNTING IN CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION USEFUL FOR RELIABLE BARGE-IN AND EARLY END OF SPEECH DETECTION

摘要

Speech recognition technology has attained maturity such that the most likely speech recognition result has been reached and is available before an energy bas ed termination of speech has been made. The present invention innovatively uses the rapidly available speech recognition results to provide intelligent barge-in for voice-response systems and, to count words to output sub-sequences to provide pa ralleling and/or pipelining of tasks related to the entire word sequence to increase proce ssing throughput.